Word: spendings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seventeen men have been awarded Sheldon Travelling Fellowships by the University, to enable them to spend the year 1923-24 in travel and study. Three of these men, Dr. G. W. Allpert '19, R. P. Casey '19, and Dr. Hallowell Davis '18, are reappointed. Dr. Allport took his Ph.D. degree last year in psychology, Mr. Casey took his S.T.B. degree at the same time and is now studying theology, while Dr. Davis is a graduate of the Medical School and is working in the field of physiology...
...Maryland) are outranged by Great Britain's five "Queen Elizabeth's" and five "Royal Sovereigns"; that America's superiority in personnel would be transferred to Great Britain if 20,000 marines were not added to our total; that it is possible for the British to spend less on their navy because labor and materials are cheaper in England...
...sooner had the gavel fallen on the 67th Session of Congress, than junketing trips at Government expense began. "Junketing"-a word of obscure origin-means a feast, a pleasure trip, a good time, and has for years been applied to the custom of members of Congress to spend the Congresional recesses in traveling about the world on public funds. Junketing trips find their justification in being ostensibly tours of investigation in the interests of the people. In practice, they are just free vacation sprees. Inspection trips this year will take Congressmen to Panama, Hawaii, Alaska, Russia...
...earth, good will to men, some Kaiser will pervert his words into " Gott mit Uns." Does a Nietzsche drive himself into madness transvaluing all the moral values, some nimbled-witted George Creel will reduce his works to a cheap credo for footpads. Does a serious-minded Bernard Shaw spend fifty years writing serious plays for the cultured leisure classes of Western Europe, half the standpatters in the world hail him as the greatest buffoon of the century...
John J. Tigert, U. S. Commissioner of Education: "This country needs to spend a great deal more money on education. . . . When the American people are spending 22 billions on luxuries, certainly they can afford to spend more than one billion on schools...